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C 2014 Lawrence H. Erickson c 2014 Lawrence H. Erickson VISIBILITY ANALYSIS OF LANDMARK-BASED NAVIGATION BY LAWRENCE H. ERICKSON DISSERTATION Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science in the Graduate College of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2014 Urbana, Illinois Doctoral Committee: Professor Jeff Erickson, Chair Professor Steven M. LaValle, Director of Research Assistant Professor Derek Hoiem Associate Professor Volkan Isler, University of Minnesota ABSTRACT This thesis introduces and examines the chromatic art gallery problem. The chromatic art gallery problem asks for the minimum number of landmark classes required to ensure that every point in an input polygon sees at least one landmark but sees no more than one landmark of any particular class. The problem is motivated by partially distinguishable landmark-based navi- gation. A robot that navigates by landmarks must ensure that it always has one in view, or else it might reach a configuration where it has no bearings to use any of its motion primitives. Additionally, if the robot reaches a posi- tion where it can see two landmarks of the same class, its motion primitives become ambiguous. Because the number of landmark classes available for navigation is dependent on the discriminatory power of the robot’s sensors, the chromatic art gallery problem relates the complexity of an environment to the sensors required to visually navigate in the environment. Existing research has generally not addressed this issue. This thesis provides upper and lower bounds on the number of landmark classes required for various types of polygons as a function of the number of polygon vertices and demonstrates the NP-hardness of determining whether 5 or more classes is necessary for an input polygon. Bounds and NP-hardness results are also given for a variant of the chromatic art gallery problem in which the visibility graph of the landmarks is required to be connected. The chromatic art gallery problem can be phrased in terms of a landmark placement problem combined with a graph coloring problem. The landmarks are placed such that each point in the polygon is visible from a landmark, and the restrictions on shared classes between landmarks is represented by a conflict graph. The vertex set of the conflict graph is the set of landmarks; two graph vertices are joined by an edge if the corresponding landmarks are visible from a common point. The goal is to find a set of landmarks that have a conflict graph with a minimal chromatic number. ii This thesis explores the structural properties of the conflict graphs by de- scribing three necessary conditions for conflict graphs. Additional restrictions are determined for conflict graphs that arise in specific types of polygons. Be- yond their use for the chromatic art gallery problem, these structural results are useful for error checking in surveillance algorithms. iii To Kristen and Ivan iv ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I would like to thank Kristen, Ivan, my parents, my father-in-law, my family, our babysitter Matt, his wife Dianna, and my various friends who kept me sane for the last several months. I would also like to thank Steve for hiring me as an undergraduate and advising me through six years of graduate school. Thanks to Alex DiCarlo for constructing the robot in Figure 1.3. Finally, I would like to thank my co-authors (especially Steve, John, and Luca) and anyone with whom I have had an interesting mathematical discussion. This work was supported in part by NSF grant 0904501 (IIS Robotics), NSF grant 1035345 (CNS Cyberphysical Systems), DARPA SToMP grant HR0011-05-1-0008, and MURI/ONR grant N00014-09-1-1052 v TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION . 1 CHAPTER 2 PROBLEM DEFINITION AND GEOMETRIC BACK- GROUND................................ 12 2.1 ProblemDefinition ........................ 12 2.2 PolygonTerms .......................... 13 2.3 ArtGalleryProblem ....................... 15 2.4 SensorPlacementProblem . 21 CHAPTER 3 CHROMATIC ART GALLERY PROBLEM . 23 3.1 GeneralPolygons ......................... 23 3.2 Complexity ............................ 25 3.3 MonotonePolygons........................ 27 3.4 StaircasePolygons ........................ 29 3.5 Rectilinear Polygons . 33 3.6 SpiralPolygons .......................... 47 CHAPTER 4 CONNECTED VISIBILITY GRAPH VARIANT . 51 4.1 LowerBoundforGeneralPolygons . 52 4.2 LowerBoundforMonotonePolygons . 55 4.3 UpperBoundforMonotonePolygons . 56 CHAPTER 5 INTERSECTION GRAPHS OF k-LINK VISIBIL- ITYREGIONS ............................. 71 5.1 IntroductionandRelatedWork . 71 5.2 Definitions............................. 73 5.3 GraphInclusions ......................... 76 5.4 ForbiddenGraphs......................... 81 CHAPTER 6 DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION . 88 6.1 SummaryofResultsandDiscussion . 88 6.2 OpenProblems .......................... 89 6.3 Variants .............................. 91 REFERENCES............................... 95 vi CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION Despite the importance of landmark-based navigation in robotics, there have been few attempts to understand the relationship between the geometry of an environment in which a robot is attempting to navigate and the discrimina- tory power required by the landmark-detecting sensors to effectively navigate in the environment. This thesis examines this relationship in the context of navigation via visually detectable landmarks. The primary motivation for studying this problem is to inform the selection of the sensors when design- ing a robot intended for a specific task. If the sensors are inadequate for the robot to navigate in the environments that it is likely to enter, then it will be unable to complete its tasks. If the sensors are overly powerful for the types of environments it is likely to enter, then the robot’s cost and complexity has been increased with little benefit. A landmark-based motion primitive is a function that takes as input one or more landmarks visible from the robot and outputs a direction of move- ment. Possible primitives would include actions of the form “move toward the selected landmark”, “move away from the selected landmark”, “move in a counterclockwise circle around the selected landmark”, “drive to the mid- point of the line segment between two selected landmarks”, etc. (see Figure 1.1). These primitives are intended to describe the possible actions that a robot could take when it is performing landmark-based navigation. There are two minimal conditions that must satisfied for a robot to navi- gate by landmark-based motion primitives. First, the robot must always be able to see a landmark, as otherwise the robot will have nothing on which to base its motion primitives. Second, the robot must be able to distinguish the landmarks within its field of view. If it cannot distinguish the landmarks, the motion primitives become ambiguous and there is a risk of navigational failure. Note that these are merely necessary conditions for navigation. De- pending on the precise motion primitives available, additional conditions may 1 Figure 1.1: Four possible primitives: “drive toward a landmark”, “drive away from a landmark”, “drive counterclockwise around a landmark”, and “drive to the midpoint of the line segment between two landmarks”. be required. For example, if all primitives available to the robot require two distinct landmarks as input, then two landmarks would need to be visible from each point in the environment. Problems related to satisfying the first condition are called art gallery problems. These problems take as input an environment (typically a simply- connected polygon), and ask for a small set of landmarks in the environment such that each point in the environment is visible from a landmark. The most well-known version of the problem, in which the input is a simply-connected polygon and the possible landmarks are the polygon vertices, was examined by Chvatal in [1], in which he determined that for an n-vertex polygon, at most n/3 landmarks are always sufficient and sometimes necessary. While ⌊ ⌋ there are numerous ways to describe the complexity of a polygon, Chvatal and most others state the number of required landmarks in terms of the 2 number of polygon vertices. The second condition (and to some extent, the first) is primarily about the power of the robot’s sensor suite. A robot with no sensors cannot detect any landmarks. A robot with a single binary photoreceptor (an extremely poor sensor) can detect landmarks (light sources), but cannot distinguish among the landmarks. As the sensor gets more powerful, more objects potentially become landmarks (if equipped with a rangefinder, it might be able to rec- ognize certain geometric features of the environment) and the landmarks become more distinguishable from each other (if the photoreceptor could de- tect the wavelength of the light, then the robot could distinguish two light sources of different colors). More generally, one can divide the landmarks in the environment into classes based on the ability of the robot’s sensors to distinguish them. Two landmarks in the same class cannot be distinguished by the sensor suite, but two landmarks in different classes appear different to the sensors. If the sensors place all the landmarks into the same class, then the landmarks are indistinguishable. If each class contains only one landmark, the landmarks are fully distinguishable. If there is more than one class of landmark, but some landmarks share a class, then the landmarks are partially distinguishable. As the sensors become more powerful,
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